We provide an online platform which allows users to upload and share images, videos and other content. We take the rights of intellectual property owners very seriously and comply as a service provider with all applicable provisions of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
If you want to report any content that you believe violates or infringes your copyright, please fill out the form below.
Note that a report alleging infringement or violation of legal rights must come from the rights owner or someone authorized to report on their behalf (e.g. attorney, agent). If you are not the rights owner or their authorized representative, we will not be able to process your report.
As stated in our End User License Agreement and Terms of Service, Joke-R enforces its policy barring the upload of infringing material onto the Joke-R Platform. We respect the rights of copyright owners and we ask that you do the same.
Copyright is the right of an author of a creative work to prevent others from using that work, including performing or displaying the work publicly, reproducing a work, distributing a work, or using it to create new works (a derivative work). We strongly encourage users of the Joke-R Platform to familiarize themselves with copyright law before uploading content on the Joke-R Platform. We offer the following links to copyright law resources for informational purposes only:
Copyright can cover almost any creative expression, including photographs, images, videos, audio/visual creations, live streams, articles, and other works of authorship. If you did not create a work and do not have the consent of the copyright holder to publish or use it (e.g., upload it to the Joke-R Platform), your use of that work may be unauthorized and you may be subject to liability for copyright infringement.
If you upload content and you don’t own the copyright and don’t have permission to upload, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, or create a derivative work of that content or any portion of that content, you may be sued by the copyright owner thereof for copyright infringement. The damages for copyright infringement can be severe. In the United States, statutory damages (available to a copyright owner without proving actual harm) can range from $750 - $30,000 per work infringed, and run as high as $150,000 for willful infringement. Damages vary in other jurisdictions.
If we are notified that material you have uploaded to the Joke-R Platform infringes someone’s copyright, we will notify you and take down the content you posted. This is required by law. If you persist in uploading unauthorized content, we will, pursuant to our Repeat Infringer Policy, ban you from using the Joke-R Platform.
The “fair use” doctrine is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement in the United States that allows the use of a work for certain limited purposes such as criticism, commentary, parody, news reporting, research, and teaching. Fair use is a complicated doctrine, and it is an open question whether a particular use of a copyrighted work constitutes fair use. You are responsible for the content you upload to the Joke-R Platform and may be liable for money damages if it is determined that you wrongly assumed that your use of certain content constituted “fair use”.
We offer the following links to various copyright law resources relating to the fair use doctrine for informational purposes only:
Please fill out the Joke-R DMCA Copyright Infringement Notification form below. Note that a report alleging infringement or violation of legal rights must come from the rights owner or someone authorized to report on their behalf (e.g. attorney, agent). If you are not the rights owner or their authorized representative, we will not be able to process your report.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: WE ARE NOT YOUR ATTORNEYS AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS COPYRIGHT FAQ IS FOR YOUR GENERAL INFORMATION ONLY. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FAQ IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND. THIS FAQ MAY NOT COVER IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT AFFECT YOUR USE OF CONTENT. YOU SHOULD CONSULT WITH AN ATTORNEY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COPYRIGHT LAW OR YOUR USE OF PARTICULAR CONTENT.